Editing Dangerous (1935 film) (section)

==Production==
[[Bette Davis]] initially turned down the script, but [[Warner Bros.]] studio production chief [[Hal B. Wallis]] convinced her she could make something special out of the character, who had been inspired by one of Davis' idols, actress [[Jeanne Eagels]].<ref name="tcm.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/72196/dangerous|title=''Dangerous'' at Turner Classic Movies|website=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=16 November 2021}}</ref>  In fact, one of the characters in the film mentions how Eagels and Davis character Joyce are the only two actresses who can play the lead in the play "But to Die". Davis was determined to look like an actress on the skids, and insisted [[Orry-Kelly]] design costumes appropriate for a woman who had seen better days. It was for this film [[Perc Westmore]] styled her hair in the [[bob cut]] she would favor for the rest of her life.<ref>''Mother Goddam'' by Whitney Stine, with a running commentary by Bette Davis, Hawthorn Books, 1974, pp. 70-71 ({{ISBN|0-8015-5184-6}})</ref>

Based on [[Laird Doyle]]'s short story ''Hard Luck Dame'', the $194,000 film had six [[working title]]s before producer Hal B. Wallis decided on ''Dangerous''. The other titles were ''Hard Luck Dame'', ''Evil Star'' (which Davis favored), ''The Jinx Woman'', ''Forever Ends at Dawn'', ''Tomorrow Ends'' and ''But to Die''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1994-03-06-9402260493-story.html|title=MOVIE DIDN'T IMPRESS BETTE DAVIS|newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]]|access-date=16 November 2021}}</ref>

[[Image:Bette Davis and Franchot Tone in Dangerous trailer.JPG|175px|left]][[Franchot Tone]], who recently had completed ''[[Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)|Mutiny on the Bounty]]'', was borrowed from [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] to bolster Davis' marquee value.

Three songs by [[Harry Warren]] - "Forty-Second Street," "The Little Things You Used to Do," and "Sweet and Slow" - are heard on the soundtrack. The other song was "Bridal Chorus" by [[Richard Wagner]].

In 1941, the film was remade as ''[[Singapore Woman]]'' as a [[B movies (Hollywood Golden Age)|second feature]] with [[Brenda Marshall]] in the lead role. It coincidentally utilized some of the sets from ''[[The Letter (1940 film)|The Letter]]'', the 1940 film starring Davis.<ref>''Mother Goddam'', p. 73</ref>

Davis won the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for her performance, but always felt it was a consolation prize for not having been nominated for ''[[Of Human Bondage (1934 film)|Of Human Bondage]]'' the previous year,<ref>''The Life of Bette Davis'' by Charles Higham, [[Macmillan Publishing Company]] (1981), p. 76 ({{ISBN|0-02-551500-4}})</ref> and believed that [[Katharine Hepburn]] should have won the award for her performance in another 1935 film, ''[[Alice Adams (1935 film)|Alice Adams]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schulman |first1=Michael |title=Oscars Spotlight: The Unusually Wide-Open Actress Races |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/oscars-spotlight-the-unusually-wide-open-actress-races |access-date=July 12, 2024 |work=[[The New Yorker]] |date=April 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529132747/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/oscars-spotlight-the-unusually-wide-open-actress-races |archive-date=May 29, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2002, [[Steven Spielberg]] anonymously bought the Oscar Davis had won at auction at [[Sotheby's]] and returned it to the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]. The statuette had been part of the memorabilia displayed by the [[Planet Hollywood]] restaurant chain.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Archerd |first1=Army |title=Spielberg gets the Oscar . . . from Sotheby’s |url=https://variety.com/2002/voices/columns/spielberg-gets-the-oscar-from-sotheby-s-1117877678/ |access-date=July 12, 2024 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date=Dec 18, 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307141338/https://variety.com/2002/voices/columns/spielberg-gets-the-oscar-from-sotheby-s-1117877678/ |archive-date=March 7, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>